Nicholson, Karen
cyx5 at cdc.gov
Tue Oct 11 12:44:40 CDT 2005
I love the bellybutton thing. My signficant other renamed *My Computer* to *My Toe Nails*, and I didn't realize it. All of a sudden, my Citrix was not working. I was on the phone with IT for at least a half an hour and we gave up. Then I saw it - what the? Karen S. Nicholson Programmer Analyst EG&G Technical Services, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Phone: 412-386-6649 Email: cyx5 at cdc.gov -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of pctech at mybellybutton.com Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:56 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall John Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote on 10/11/2005, 05:56:21 AM: > Frank, > > >He judged the document without having ever seen it. > > I tried to judge it AFTER reading it but I couldn't find it. I have > offered to post it however, and the offer stands. > > Lighten up buddy. I am not casting aspersions on your document, or > your abilities. You sound to me like you know what you are doing. > > And I am willing, on further consideration, to suspend my disbelief re > whether a dedicated PC firewall could be as easy as you make it sound. > If it is in fact that easy, I want one. I think I said that somewhere > in this exchange. But it does have to just sit in the corner humming > and not bother me. No OS updates and stuff. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Frank > Tanner III > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:09 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall > > > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:20 -0500, John Bartow wrote: > > Did you post a link to the document? If you did I missed it. > > > > John B. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > > pctech at mybellybutton.com > > > > You are the one that seems close-minded about this, without even > > having seen the document, I might add. > > > > No. I didn't post a link to the document. He judged the document > without having ever seen it. He assumed that it was complicated and > hard to read for the novice. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com That's one of the nice things about Linux. It can update itself automatically, including a scheduled reboot *IF* the kernel has been updated. Linux is flexible that way. It even automatically restarts any services or daemons that have been replaced by an update. As an example, I have had to manually touch my home firewall that I built, that a large portion of this document is based on, exactly 5 times in the last 2 years. Yes, I actually keep maintenance logs on my home systems. One of those times was when I built it. One was to replace failed RAM. One was because my ISP and I thought I had a network card problem that turned out to be an issue with my VDSL gateway box. The other two were because I wanted to take the fierwall apart and blow the dust out. Linux and other *nix variants can run for a very long time without reboots. My firewall automatically reboots at 2:00am if, and only if, the kernel has been updated. Even then, it doesn't absolutely need to be rebooted. It only needs to be erbooted if you want to use the newly updated kernel. It will run just fine on the existing kernel that is loaded in memory. No, I didn't post a link to the document. For a couple of reasons. At the moment it is in first draft stage. I just completed it yesterday. Decond, even though I own the mybellybutton.com Internet domain name, I don't have a web site set up at the moment. I will send you a copy of the document off-list. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com